Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Oneness-Home Peace-Run, founded by Sri Chinmoy in 1987, this clip brings you back to the ceremony of the Peace Run in New York in April 1989, featuring Sudhahota Carl Lewis, Narada Michael Walden and Sri Chinmoy himself, speaking about the spirit of the Peace Run. Filmed by kedarvideo, Switzerland.

Sri Chinmoy and his students visited Rome in March 1996 to get the Fred Lebow Prize and to visit the Rome City Marathon where the Peace Torch of the International Peace Run was presented at the start. The disciples also helped at the drinking station of the race. Filmed by kedarvideo, Switzerland.

A New York man set a new world record by extinguishing more than 30 matches with his tongue in a minute. Ashrita Furman, who holds more than 200 Guinness World Records, claimed the new title for “most matchsticks extinguished with the tongue in 1 minute.” Furman, 61, sat at a table at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Jamaica and individually lit a total of 37 matches and extinguished them on his tongue to surpass the previous record of 30. He was only permitted to extinguish one match at a time and was prohibited from using his breath to blow them out. (SOURCE: UPI)

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run we collected heartfelt encouragement from many prominent individuals who have offered their support to this global expression of humanity’s aspiration for world peace.

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The world record for balancing a running lawnmower on a chin while walking has been broken – and it happened here in the garden of Wales. New Yorker, Ashrita Furman broke the record by doubling it to 48.5 meters in Carmarthenshire ’s National Botanic Garden of Wales. Ashrita, 62, has set more than 600 official Guinness Records since 1979 and currently holds more than 200 records – including the official record for the most records held at the same time by an individual. He said of his latest attempt: “The lawnmower had to be running and then it’s handle balanced on my chin and the whole time you are having to battle against it using your neck and head while walking.”

He said he was pleased to break the record. Previously the distance was 20 metres and on Monday he managed to reach 48.5 meters. Furman said the garden was a perfect location for the challenge. As a follower of spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy and meditation, he said it was a fitting venue, as it has a statue of Sri Chinmoy in the gardens. He added: “It was my first world record attempt in Wales. Being the person with the most world records under his belt Furman is always looking ahead to his next attempt. Over the years he has held record breaking titles from the longest cycle ride underwater, sack racing against a yak in Mongolia, the world’s largest popcorn sculpture (at 20ft high) and bouncing on a kangaroo ball along the Great Wall of China.

“It’s a beautiful place and Carmarthenshire too is so nice, we have friends here so I thought I would do my challenge.” Furman has set records in 40 countries and has broken a record in all seven continents, yes including Antartica. This milestone was reached when he set the mile hula hoop record at Ayers Rock in the Australian desert. He runs a health food store in Jamaica, Queens, New York, along with being the tour manager of his meditation group. Looking ahead to his next challenge Furman is hoping to break the longest stilt walking challenge. “That will probaby be back in New York because it will have to be done on a track, but I’m looking forward to it.”

Asked how he comes up with his challenges he explained: “The ideas come to me and sometimes I revisit records that I have set and others have since broken. “That’s the problem with having so many records to my name, is that they also get broken all the time.” “So I don’t get mad at those records being broken, I see it as a challenge.”